Improvement in devices for hanging looking-glasses and pictures



DAVID CROWELL, Jr., lmprovemeht in Devices for Hanging Looking-Glasses and Pictures.

No. 315,713. Patentedlune6,1871.

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DAVID GROWELL, JR, OF YARMOUTH PORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR HANGING LOOKING-GLASSES AND PICTURES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,713, dated June 6, 1871.

I, DAVID OROWELL, Jr., of the town of Yarmouth Port, the county of Barnstable, in the .State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful invention for Hanging Looking- Glasses or the Frames, called a Glass or PictureHook, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of the representation of a dog or lions head with screw on the back.

part to screw into the wall or place you want your glass or picture, and is represented substantially as follows, and. is shown in the drawin g herewith annexed. V

A represents the head, and is made out of brass, iron, or any other kind of metal. 0 (J represent the cord by which the frame is hung, going around the dogs neck, as shown by letter G, and passing through his mouth, as shown by letter D. M B represents the month of dog or lion, partly open. 0 C also represent the cord fastened to the-glass, as represented by the letters I I on each lower corner of the frame of glass or picture. F represents a'ring fastresents the screw in the back part of the head or neck, by which it is substantially fastened to the desired place.

What I claim as my improvement-in a derice for hanging frames, &c., is-

The device shown, a dogs head, A, to be attached by screw H, in combination with cords G G, and month 1), chain E, hooks J I I, as

shown and described.

DAVID cnowELL, JR.

Witnesses:

JEROME AMOS, F. W. HOWARD. 

